Friday, 14 November 2014

SY - The Movie

It has been said that Euclides Monteiro was the reason for the PJ to have reopened the Maddie process that was archived in 2008.

It
was also said that PJ have abandoned the Euclides-lead and are now
focusing on a foreigner who never lived in Portugal. Euclides and a
foreigner. That’s how many suspects we have been told exist on the
Portuguese investigation. Not saying they were the only ones but that
they’re the only ones the press has reported since PJ reopened the case in 2013.

The British have been much, much more imaginative. This post will try to show you just how much.

SY start by reopening the case with no less than 38 persons of interest.

"We
have identified 38 persons of interest from a number of European
countries. Twelve of those people are UK nationals who we believe were
in Portugal at the time Madeleine disappeared," Insp Redwood said” and
“of the 38 suspects, 12 are British and were all in Portugal at the time
of Madeleine’s disappearance.”

“At that time, detectives said there
were 38 "persons of interest" from five different countries - Portugal,
the UK and three others that were not named.

Police said the number had now gone up to 41, of whom 15 were UK nationals.”

The 3 new persons of interest are UK nationals – in July they were 12. Who could they be?

In this article the phone calls made in Luz on that night are brought into the plot:

“Police
are trying to identify the owner of each phone to build up a picture of
exactly who was in the area. More than 3,000 people live in Praia de
Luz, while holidaymakers and seasonal workers visit from countries
across the world” as “according to Scotland Yard, the phone records had
been "looked at" during the initial Portuguese police investigation but
not in detail.”

We could not help but note that on this article
there’s this very interesting paragraph: “Jim Gamble, the former head of
the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre told the BBC's
Today programme he had recommended the "cell dump" was looked at again
in his 2010 review of the case.”

Now we know what his “2010
review of the case” is. And we get to know that Jim Gamble tried to
infiltrate Operation Grange right from the start of the formal inquiry.

Something interesting happens on the next day: the failed burglary theory sees the light of day for the first time.

“Madeleine McCann may have been abducted after disturbing burglars in her family’s holiday apartment, Scotland Yard believes.

Detectives
think her disappearance could be linked to a series of break-ins at the
Portuguese resort from which she vanished, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The
burglaries – thought to be the work of a ‘team’ of thieves – happened
in the months leading up to Madeleine’s disappearance from the Ocean
Club in Praia da Luz in May 2007.

One theory – now being taken seriously by British police – is that burglars panicked after Madeleine awoke from her sleep.

Sources
in the Algarve – where the authorities are working closely with
Scotland Yard – confirmed yesterday that detectives are investigating a
series of thefts from the Ocean Club and elsewhere in Praia da Luz.”

“The abduction of Madeleine McCann could have been a
pre-planned operation, the head of the Scotland Yard inquiry said
yesterday.

Elements of the mystery suggest there may have been
surveillance or reconnaissance of families with young children at the
holiday resort on the Algarve.

(…)

A charity collector
who called at 5A on April 25 or 26 before the McCanns arrived. He was
described as Portuguese-looking, aged 40 to 45, with short, dark hair,
slightly greying at the sides.

The man was carrying a clipboard
or pad, receipt book and an ID card with his photo on it. But in the
photo he had a goatee beard.

Police say there were other charity
collectors in the area claiming they were raising money for orphans. In
reality, they may have been thieves looking for holiday apartments to
burgle.”

Charity collectors are then clearly linked to Maddie burglars. And all was, apparently, pre-planned. The burglary, at least.

This
shows us that even before the airing of UK Crimewatch, the burglary
plot was already in place: phone calls, burglars and charity collectors.
All put together make a failed burglary, one of the many “series of
thefts from the Ocean Club and elsewhere in Praia da Luz”, pre-planned
by bogus charity collectors who chose this disguise to choose their
victims. Their downfall? Their excessive use of mobiles that night.

It
limits itself to discarding Bundleman as a suspect by bringing
Créche Dad into the picture and highlights Smithman by giving him 2
faces.

Smithman is not a new suspect, he’s known to authorities
since Martin Smith spoke of him in May 2007. Mr Amaral, for one, has
made him a well known suspect in the case.

As said, about a possible
burglary, on UK Crimewatch not a word. There’s a door is left open for
it by Redwood saying that Bundleman is no one but innocent
Crèche Dad, Maddie could have been taken anytime between 21:15 and
22:00.

Point is, on 14OCT2013, SY has 41 persons of interest (of
which 15 UK nationals) plus 1 unknown individual, Smithman and his 2
faces. Subtly in the background the UK press had put in the back of our minds the failed burglary with its
phone calls and charity collectors.

On
the next day, 24OCT2013, BBC’s online article “Madeleine McCann inquiry timeline” confirms this reopening “on 24 October 2013 it was announced
that the Portuguese police had reopened their inquiry into the
disappearance, citing "new lines of inquiry". The Scotland Yard inquiry
will run alongside the Portuguese investigation.”

The same article makes quite a detailed timeline of events up until then:

“2013

17 May: UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified "a number of persons of interest".

4
July: The Metropolitan Police says it has new evidence and has opened a
formal investigation. It says it is investigating 38 "persons of
interest".

14
October: A BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen
carrying a blond-haired child of three or four, possibly wearing
pyjamas, in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing. It
also shows a detailed reconstruction of events on the night she
disappeared.

“The
PJ has already been on the ground to understand where mobile telephone
antennae are located near the Ocean Club, in Portimão, the resort from
where Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007. The objective of the
inspectors is to do the triangulation of mobile phones of crucial
witnesses and possible suspects that may be identified in the process,
which has now been reopened. Signals of mobile phone antennae allow to
establish in what area which each person was on the night of the
disappearance.”

The same article also speaks of the interest of doing a reconstruction, yet to be done.

On
29OCT2013, Correio da Manhã reports that “PJ looks again for Maddie’s body”. For the
first time, explicitly since 2008, Maddie is referred as dead:
“hypothesis of homicide is investigated by authorities”

On the
next day, 30OCT2013, the Euclides saga begins. A person who seems to be
of interest to the PJ but of no interest at all for SY.

Euclides centres the attention on what concerns suspects for the next 2 months.

But in January 2014, SY rehashes the failed burglary, bringing it back to life.

The burglars as a trio make their appearance on stage, the infamous 3 Burglars:

“Three
burglars have been ­identified as prime suspects in the hunt for
Madeleine McCann after detectives trawled through thousands of phone
records.

Scotland Yard believes Madeleine was snatched by a
panicked gang who ­accidentally woke her in the family’s holiday
apartment and decided to take her with them.

Mobile phone
analysis shows the men made an unusually high number of calls to each
other in the hours after she disappeared aged three in Praia da Luz,
Portugal.

British officers now want to arrest the men but need
the Portuguese to agree to a formal joint investigation as UK detectives
cannot swoop on foreign suspects.”

And we also witness the beginning of the sex-assault spree, for now, just a disturbance:

“Officers
believe the burglars had carried out a raid in the resort days before
Madeleine vanished in May 2007, disturbing another child. That
youngster’s parents were outside and rushed in to find the intruders had
fled.

During their bungled probe Portuguese police attached no
­significance to the ­break-in. But the Met is thought to have made
checks into the men’s criminal history, their friends and any vehicles
they have used.

Scotland Yard, which refused to comment, also
ruled out Portuguese officers’ prime suspect – a man who had worked at
the resort where the McCanns, of Rothley, Leics, stayed.”

Could this child who was disturbed be the one Summers and Swan refer to in the “Mommyman” episode in their worstselling book?

It
can’t be because friend of Mummy said Mummy was inside and Mummy came down
the stairs and saw Mummyman’s legs. And in this article we have plural both on parents and
intruders, not a parent and an intruder.

Could it be that in their meticulous journalistic research Summers and Swan let this episode slip by?

SY
says they are set to make imminent arrests. On 12JAN2014. Imminent as
in likely to occur at any moment. The world braced itself.

“The
Crown Prosecution Service has sent an International Letter of Request to
­Portuguese police seeking permission to arrest the trio”

It looked like a “slam dunk” case. No need for socks or toothbrush in the luggage. Just handcuffs. 3 pairs.

“British police are poised to make the first arrests in the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann.

The Met want to quiz three burglars who carried out raids in the Portuguese resort when the three-year-old vanished.

Officers
were last night preparing to fly to the Algarve to make their first
arrests since the force set up Operation Grange in 2011 to review the
­kidnapping.

They hope to speak to the thieves after mobile phone
records showed the men made numerous calls to each other in the hours
after she disappeared.”

Just fly in, cuff them and fly out, it
seemed.

But even the article recognises it wasn’t exactly so. It later
clarifies that it was only to see if the 3 Burglars were really people
of interest: “Police want to be given a chance to arrest key suspects.
It doesn’t prove they have Madeleine but it will rule them in or out of
the investigation and that is important.”

Why is “arrest”, imminent or otherwise, even used in this phrase?

CPS allegedly requested permission to arrest people who SY
doesn’t know if they really are of interest to the case.

Noted
is the evident dissent between the two Police forces: “whether the
Portuguese will co-operate remains to be seen. It is a very sensitive
issue with differences they have had.”

Also to be noted is the
“disturbed” child of 05JAN2014 Mirror article is now said to be 3 yrs
old: “Days before Madeleine’s disappearance from Praia da Luz in May
2007 aged three, the gang raided another holiday flat there, disturbing a
child. The ­youngster’s parents interrupted the burglars who fled.”

Days before. A toddler Maddie’s age. In the same resort. The seed for the sex-assault spree in the Algarve has been watered.

On February 2014, we have a first indication of who might be part SY’s Burglar trio.

On
03FEB2014, in Diário de Notícias (paper edition), in the article “PJ searches driver from the hotel where Maddie disappeared from” it is said
“they are trying to find man responsible for driving tourists to and
from Faro airport. He resigned from the resort, worked at a bar and is
supposedly unemployed now” and “the man, who is single and may be 40
years old now, worked subsequently at a bar in that area, he is
considered as “humble and very polite”, sources guaranteed to DN.”

On
13FEB2014, in the article from Jornal de Notícias, “English want to question more people in the Maddie case”, the 3 Burglars are removed by
SY from their 41 ‘persons of interest: “Scotland Yard detectives are
going to ask for more people to be questioned, out of the approximately
forty persons, who they consider “of interest” to the investigation into
the disappearance of the English child, in Praia da Luz, in the
Algarve, in 2007.”

“Recent discussions
between the two forces are believed to have centred on a burglary gang
who had targeted homes in the resort at the time Madeleine vanished.

Mobile
phone records are said to have revealed that three suspected burglars
repeatedly called each other in the hours after Madeleine disappeared.”

Oddly,
the same article says “Mr Hewitt said so far the Yard had not asked the
Portuguese authorities to interview or arrest any suspects” which contradicts what was reported in January.

5
days later, on 18FEB2014, the Daily Star warns of things not going well
between PJ and SY as to who should be considered a suspect, in their
article “MADDIE: COPS AT WAR“:

“Porto police bungling hunt, say Brit tecs

FRUSTRATED British police fear Portuguese officers are chasing the wrong suspect in the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann.

(…)

And they warn that an “us against them” attitude could wreck the search.

A
source close to the UK inquiry told the Daily Star: “This is not a
game. A little girl’s life may be at stake.” FRUSTRATED British police
fear Portuguese officers are chasing the wrong lead in the hunt for
Madeleine McCann.

(…)

British investigators believe the
three-year-old was snatched after disturbing burglars who broke into her
parents’ holiday apartment.

And their chief suspects are a
three-strong gang who made a high number of mobile calls nearby on the
night Maddie vanished. But Portuguese detectives are concentrating their
efforts on a theory that a now-dead heroin addict abducted Madeleine.”

Apparently, for SY it had to be failed burglary. Any other was simply counter-productive.

Then the sex-assault spree began.

Crimewatch, on 19MAR2014 we had the introduction of this rampage: 12 offenses but only 1 attacker.

“…and the intruder appeared in the early hours of the morning between 02.00hrs and 05.00hrs.

The
suspect may have been in the villa or looking round the villa for some
time before committing the offences or being disturbed either by a
parent coming in, or the child waking up.

He remained calm, even when disturbed.

On two occasions the noise of a bin collection lorry could be heard nearby.

Of the twelve offences, there were four in Carvoeiro, six in the Vale da Parra , Praia da Gale district and two in Praia da Luz.

Witnesses
describe the man as having dark or tanned skin with short dark unkempt
hair. He spoke in English with a foreign accent, his voice was described
as slow, or possibly slurred.

He was sometimes bare chested, some describe him as having a pot belly, and three victims said that he had a noticeable odour.

On
two occasions in Vale de Parra and Praia da Gale he was wearing a
distinctive burgundy long sleeve top, on one of those occasions it was
described as having a white circle on the back.”

As we all know, as we explained in our “Blackmail” post, the 12 assaults became 18 in little over a month.

It says “three took place in Praia da Luz, between
2005 and 3010, five in Carvoeiro, between 2004 and 2006, nine between
Praia da Galé, Vale da Parra and São Rafael, in the Albufeira county,
between 2004 and 2008, and one in Vilamoura, in 2005”

By comparison, the six new
cases were then one in Praia da Luz, three in Praia da Galé, Vale da Parra
and São Rafael, one in Carvoeiro and one in Albufeira.

This
is confirmed the next day by the UK Press. The Express on 24APR2014 says:

“He spoke ­English with a foreign accent, was tanned, with short, dark,
unkempt hair, and reeked of tobacco, stale aftershave or alcohol.

During
two incidents, he wore a ­burgundy long-sleeved top. One ­witness said
it had a white circle on the back. Detective Chief Inspector Andy
Redwood, head of Operation Grange, said several features of the
description, the type of offences and the way they were committed point
to a lone offender.”

The 3 Burglars abandoned? Now only a loner?

The
novelty? Just like in January again the “Police now ready to make arrests
in the Algarve in missing Madeleine McCann case”.

“Besides
the searches, which were already allowed by the Public Prosecutor of
Portimão, the letters rogatory also request for eight people to be
questioned. Some used to work at the Ocean Club resort whilst others are
not linked in any way. With all these initiatives, it seems likely that
Scotland Yard has more than one line of investigation, of which the
latest and most visible action yet indicates the hypothesis that the
child was murdered and buried in Praia da Luz. When questioned, in Faro,
DCI Andy Redwood refused to speak with the journalists.”

“Portuguese
police sources have confirmed to the Observer that a number of suspects
identified by Scotland Yard detectives will be taken in for questioning
"in the very near future" over the disappearance seven years ago of
Madeleine McCann.

Police confirmed that "several people" had been
identified by the Metropolitan police, who have had officers and two
sniffer dogs in the Algarve all week searching a large area of scrubland
close to the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz where the McCann family
were staying when the three-year-old disappeared in May 2007. The search
of that particular area, a Portuguese police source said, would end on 8
June and shift to another area

(…)

Police also confirmed
all the suspects still live in Portugal and that interviews would take
place at either of the two Algarve police stations, Faro or Portimão,
conducted by Portuguese detectives with their British counterparts
allowed to sit in but not intervene”

Sergey Malinka, who we’re all familiar with and who the article says he was an arguido in 2007, which is incorrect, he wasn’t.

Jose
Carlos Fernandes da Silva, a driver who had worked for the OC since
26MAR2007. In his statement he says he was on his balcony at 23.00 when 2
men passed by and told him what had happened. He didn’t know the
family. He worked from 11-4, except on Thursday and Saturday.

Ricardo Rodrigues was 16 at the time and said to be a beggar. He was the person phoned by Da Silva.

Paulo Ribeiro was named as the heroin addict and schizophrenic. Aged 44 in 2007.

The
main suspect is José da Silva. Why? Apparently because of 4 phone calls
he made to Ricardo Rodrigues on the day of the crime:

Phone call #1 - 17:26 which coincides with the time that Maddie left the crèche;

Phone call #2 - 21:25 a text message at when two members of the McCann's group went to check the children;

Phone call #3 - 21:38, when Jane Tanner left the Tapas bar and the last at

First correction, the list is made up of 3 phone calls and 1 text message. Not 4 phone calls. 3 phone calls and 1 text message during a time of 4 hours and 25 minutes.

Second
correction, Phone call #3 - 21:38 is not when Tanner leaves the table.
She leaves around 21:10 to cross with Jez and Gerry talking at 21:15. Is
this “21:38” the new time Tanner leaves the table so as to fit Gerry’s
theory that they didn’t cross with each other that night? If so, where
is that written?

At 21.15 Jez Wilkins and Gerry are talking,
21:25 two member are walking towards apartment and then back, 21:38,
Jane is walking up the street and 21:51 Kate follows the same path. In
less than 45 minutes we have six people walking up that street being
MONITORED by mobile and even so, burglars decide to rob.

Please take into account Crèche Dad is walking about too. No longer at 21:15 but now, supposedly, at around 21:40.

Imagining
the last call was to tell Foiling Burglar inside to get out as mum was
coming; then the crime MUST have happened between 21:10 – Gerry’s father
moment – and 21:51, when Kate went up the street. With Jez, Gerry, Rob,
Matt, Jane and Crèche Dad all in the vicinity and no one seeing
anything strange. Fascinating.

So why is this said to have been a
burglary gone wrong? Who in the right mind would have details of so
many movements and still decide to burgle when so many people were
around?

And if they had seen Maddie coming out of crèche (phone
call #1) why were they surprised in finding the little girl inside?
Hadn’t they been observing her and her family?

We must question
where Pimpleman fits into this story. The man reported by 3 witnesses,
TS, JW and Derek Flack, on 5 different occasions observing the apartment
5A.

Burglars, charity collectors and stalkers. That apartment was indeed a magnet for the weirdo.

Well,
at least we finally got to know who the driver was they were looking
for in February (Diário de Notícias 03FEB2014). It was Jose da Silva.

But this article has another objective: to make the definitive link between the burglars and the charity collectors:

“Jose
Carlos da Silva, 28, used to drive guests to their apartments once they
had been ferried to the Ocean Club headquarters in Luz from airports,
writes James Murray.

(…)

We understand that on May 3 2007 there was mobile phone communication between him and a second arguido, Ricardo Rodrigues…

(…)

Little
is known about Mr Rodrigues but he is part of a group of mostly young
people in Luz who contribute to an internet site showing pictures of
scenic spots in the area. Fresh faced and youthful he is said to
resemble a photofit prepared by an elderly British couple of a man who
came to their villa with an older man to collect money for a charity on
May 3 2007.

The older man is said to resemble Paulo Ribeiro, 51, another arguido. He lives in Luz and is said to be a schizophrenic.”

Could
this article be clearer in stating that Silva, Rodrigues and Ribeiro
are the members of the much sought after Charity Collector Burglar Gang
most commonly known as the 3 Burglars?

“It is
understood they have been granted permission to interview up to seven
key suspects identified earlier this year – three of whom will be
questioned for a second time.”

Besides the fact that it turned out they had been
granted nothing, the number of suspects has now gone up to 7, including 3
of the “July arguidos”. Sergey Malinka, apparently was told “he is no
longer under suspicion”

The math adds up. On 09MAY2014 (Jornal de
Notícias, paper edition (page 13)) SY wishes to question eight “persons
of interest”. They heard 4, 4 were not heard. Take Malinka out of the
equation and one has “three of whom will be questioned for a second
time” plus 4 that weren’t heard yet.

The beginning of the current 5th rogatory suspects math suspense.

Two
days later, on 24AUG2014, Correio da Manhã, paper edition, pg 17, in its
article “English ask more diligences” it confirms that this is about the
requested in the 5th rog: “SY sent fifth rogatory letter asking to hear
more suspect people”

“Within the requests are more
interrogations of people the British consider suspects” and “the English
want also to interrogate again some of the people who were already
heard in June, among which former workers of Ocean Club”

SY wanted to return to Algarve in September. But the new Judiciary Map and the CITIUS glitch made that impossible.

Only in November were the diligences requested in the 5th rogatory letter were authorised.

“JN
was able to establish that there are about ten witnesses and that all
of them are going to be questioned for the first time within the scope
of the English investigation. Some of them are, however, already known
to the Portuguese investigation and they had nothing relevant to say
regarding the English child who disappeared seven years ago in Praia da
Luz, in the Algarve.

Even though the English police has expressed
their interest in questioning again the four men constituted as
arguidos, that had been questioned back in July, the English ended up
leaving them out of this letter rogatory, which arrived to the Public
Ministry in August.”

So
no longer 7 but 10.

“July arguidos” no longer in this number.

A whole
new bunch of witnesses/arguidos. Or could it be the unheard 4 of July
plus 6 new ones ‘persons of interest’?

“In the list for questioning, as CdM found out, there
are about ten people, between Portuguese and British” and “among the new
SY suspects, as CdM found out, there are former Ocean Club employees,
the place from where the child disappeared in May 2007, and residents of
Praia da Luz, Lagos.”

For the first time, British and residents of Praia da Luz are mentioned as ‘persons of interest’.

“The British nationals are among a group of
seven people due to be questioned as arguidos - or 'formal suspects' -
leading Portuguese daily Jornal de Noticias reported.

Four more will be interviewed as witnesses towards the end of the month at a police station in Faro.

(…)

Some
are also said to have criminal records and others are ex-workers of the
Ocean Club holiday resort where Madeleine, three at the time, was
staying with her parents.

It is not known how many of the group of seven, which also includes Portuguese nationals, are British.

(…)

At least one of the 11 people set to be quizzed later this month is thought to be a woman.”

So now it’s not 10 but 11.

7 suspects, 4 witnesses. 1 woman.

To note, the following paragraphs in this article:

“Portuguese police believe Madeleine was snatched by a foreigner no longer living in Portugal.

However
they have still not formally ruled out the involvement of junkie
burglar Euclides Monteiro, whose widow they questioned last year,
despite the fact DNA tests have put him in the clear.

Last month
it emerged the cost of the British police search for Madeleine will soon
top £10 million - double the original amount estimated by the Home
Office when the force was called in by David Cameron in 2011.”

“The pair, who live in Portugal, are
among seven new suspects who Met police will order to provide a DNA
sample. A source said Scotland Yard investigators believe they have
“identified certain people who have vital information”

Seven new
suspects have been identified by Scotland Yard officers investigating
the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and will be ordered to provide a
DNA sample.

Detectives plan to quiz the five men and two women this month. Two of the suspects are British.

The pair – a man and a woman – live on the Algarve in Portugal.

It is believed that the expats may know each other but it has not been revealed if they are a couple.

The
DNA of the seven suspects will be matched against evidence taken from
the apartment at the Ocean Club resort in the resort town of Praia da
Luz where Madeleine was staying with her family when she vanished in
2007 aged three.

(…)

“It is likely the British suspects are already known to the investigation.”

Insiders said the seven people will be classed as “persons of interest” – or “arguidos” under Portuguese law.

Four of them are men from Portugal. The other is understood to be a woman of Central or Eastern European origin.

(…)

It is understood some of the suspects know each other or worked together at the Ocean Club resort.

At
least two of them are believed to have criminal records and some made
phone calls to each other on the night Madeleine disappeared.

It is believed that the two British suspects were spoken to by Portuguese police after Madeleine vanished.”

Keeping up? Yes, we know it's hard. Now imagine the fun it was in collating all this...

Down to 7 suspects again. 5 men, 2 women.

1 man and 1 woman, ex-Pats. The other woman “Central or Eastern European origin”

“Sources close to the investigation involving the search
for missing British toddler Madeleine McCann have this week told The
Portugal News two British expats are set to be declared formal suspects
or arguidos. Another two Britons will be called in as witnesses”

Dates for questioning have been confirmed as being from November 24 to 28 at the PJ police headquarters in Faro.

(…)

The
Portugal News revealed last week (6 November) that the Metropolitan
Police were keen to speak to a number of British expats in the Algarve.

(…)

Sources said there are 11 people of interest, of which seven will be declared arguidos, and four will be heard as witnesses.

There are two Britons in each of these groups.

The
two British witnesses are a couple (a man and a woman), but the two
British suspects are said to be not related in any way and are both men.

The seven suspects do not include any of the four arguidos, all of whom are Portuguese nationals, questioned over the summer.

The Brits were all resident in Portugal at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance and have remained here since, sources said.

The
theory that Madeleine was abducted by someone passing through, remains a
scenario which Portuguese police continue to believe to be among the
most probable.

Portuguese police had earlier this summer ruled
out Cape Verdean national Euclides Monteiro, who died in 2009, of any
involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.

Police sources
confirmed that Monteiro had been the primary reason behind the case’s
reopening here in Portugal last October, but subsequent investigations
removed any suspicion over Monteiro.”

One UK national added. That makes now 4 UK nationals.

1 UK national taken out of the suspect pot and put into the witness one.

Of the 4 witnesses, 2 UK nationals, a couple – not related with the 2 Brit suspects, and assuming 2 Portuguese.

That's where we stand. At the moment. Might change in the next hours. Or minutes. Who knows?

At least it’s much more fun than just having one suspect, Euclides or two, the “foreigner” like “boring” PJ only has.

Shall we try to summarise all of the above?

Let’s
set aside the Burgundyman. His story is to support that break-ins and
assaulting little girls was a normal thing to happen British little
girls on holiday in Algarve. If one wants to enjoy sleeping at night on
holiday in Algarve do bring all your silver and gold and even your
little children but only if they’re boys.

Maddie was, according to SY, allegedly taken between 21.00 and 22.00. So not even the timeline of failed burglary fits with Burgundyman.

SY has apparently clearly identified the trio of burglars: Silva, Rodrigues and Ribeiro.

Some, with all this confusion, may think they're no longer 'persons of interest'. Nowhere is that said. What is said is that Inês Sequeira wouldn't allow them to be heard again so SY didn't even try asking.

As far as we know, only Malinka had arguido status lifted - according to the press - not the other 3.

So as far as we know, the trio remain arguidos. One could say Portugal is playing games with the UK and we might even agree. Remember it has been publicly said that all these people heard by request of rogatory letters are of interest to the UK investigation, NOT to the Portuguese one.

Back to SY and their 'persons of interest'.

We seem to have 4 witnesses, 2 of which a Brit couple.

We also seem to have 7 probable arguidos: 2 Brit men, 1 Eastern European woman and 4 Portuguese

If
this is true, then there will have been 14 arguidos in this case:
Murat, McCanns, Malinka, Silva, Rodrigues, Ribeiro and now these.

We
could speculate on who these new 7 people could be but that would be as
intelligent as thinking out loud what the other player’s cards may be
in a poker game.

Our attitude will be the same as with the
Summers & Swan book. Let’s first see who SY wants to hear and only
then draw conclusions.

But we must note 2 things.

First
is that we find really strange the lack of hurry in hearing these 11
people. On 04NOV2104, we know questioning was authorised, so why wait until
the 24th to start hearing them? No urgency? Have these people such a
full agenda that their next opening is only then?

The second
note, and a very important one, is how much the number of UK nationals, or
ex-Pats considered ‘persons of interest’ has been growing lately. Why would ex-Pats help a failing burglar with the body of a British child, one of their own, in his arms?

The list of ‘persons of interest’ is like
watching a kid writing the letter to Santa Claus. It keeps changing
the presents over and over again until it gets around to the ones the child, or in this case SY, really,
really wants.

Much has been written about what being an arguido means and let us add something that we think is important.

It’s
a legal condition whereby a citizen is given more protective rights
than he would otherwise have. But for this status one condition has to
happen: the judicial system must think it is possible that you may be
charged with committing a crime.

In plain terms, by notifying
someone that a person is an arguido the system is clearly telling that
person “looking at things there may be reasons for you to be charged, so
please be warned and prepare yourself the best you can for that
possibility”.

To be an arguido is because the legal system has
found reason, to be confirmed and always respecting the presumption of
innocence, to accuse the person of a crime.

What's clear is SY have been following the burglary gone wrong scenario for over a year and prior to UK Crimewatch.

A
burglary gone wrong means that Maddie was not taken asleep from her
bed. She had to be fully awake to make the burglary go wrong. To allow for the burglar(s) to panic.

No one was seen or heard carrying a screaming child. A burglary gone wrong means a Maddie killed inside Apartment 5A.

34 comments:

Excellent summary of a confusing area. One observation - in the (massively unlikely) event that Maddie was killed during a burglary-gone-wrong, then if the burglar strangled her then it would not necessarily leave a trace. Horrible thought but no trace does not have to mean, no murder.

Of course the residue of cadaver on the floor, cupboard, car, clothes, cuddle-cat and key rather messes up any burglary-gone-wrong / child-strangulation story.

"Why would ex-Pats help a failing burglar with the body of a British child, one of their own, in his arms?" Good question.

But if all or some of the 7 new (and 3 previous) arguidos are involved - perhaps with the original arguidos - what on earth happened that night? And how could it involve SO many people - from doctors, through ex-pats, locals, employees to drug-addicts. What possible story could bind that disparate multi-national group together?

This post is a wonderful collation of facts which are easily forgotten and now it's easier to see a developing pattern.CdM said they had seen rog letter. They must know all the names.But I don't think the UK press have the same info. If they do, they won't print names.

I think it is a wonderful summary of press articles and enabled me to see what was happening - like a bird's eye view.It makes a whitewash seem impossible, but SY have to get these minor players to crack. They have to fear the consequences of cracking less than the consequences of staying loyal.

Jim Gamble today on Sky News whilst commenting on those who download indecent images of children and how he thinks the use of 'citizens' as special constables could investigate such cases, publicly stated that he condemns vigilantes. What a hypocrit! He believes that by using his 'Stasi' specials, the Met would capture these depraved individuals and it would only cost a little over £1m/ year. This is an obvious attempt IMO to distance himself from his recent support of the vigilantees who were responsible for the death of Brenda Leyland God rest her soul. He even mentioned in his "speech" how such action could lead to an event such as a person taken their own life. Whatever he says, IMO he along with Brunt, the fat ankled lady et al were all complicit in BL's untimely death.

IMO JG appears to be a thoroughly nasty piece of work. And, I suspect, dangerous too. I wonder if BL's death will ever be properly investigated? If he was involved it's clear he feels not one jot of guilt or sympathy.

A gardener working from 7pm to 9.30 pm? I know that we have looong days (sun light) in the Summer, but this was in early May! What was he doing at those hours? Tucking in the plants, saying nighty night, or maybe cutting down some bushes, at the McCanns request?! (wasn't it Payne who mentioned something about trimming some bushes in the back of the apartment?)

Hi!Thank you again ,Textusa!!!!Just a Question about the Mccanns appearance on Crimewatch back in 2013,the way the Mccanns were interviewed seperatley from Redwood,do you think that was done delibaratley??As a regular viewer of Crimewatch, i see in major crimes usually the Lead Detective appears with the family member!!!!

I don't watch Crimewatch so didn't know what usually happens as regards family members/detectives appearing together.

DCI Andy Redwood said two very important things on the programme:

1) Tannerman is not the abductor, he's been ruled out because DCI AR has met him, seen the child's pyjamas etc etc and had the actual man photographed. Now not only is it extremely unlikely that Tannerman (now CrecheDad) has come forward after six years and has even kept the pyjamas for all those years, having read this blog over the last few weeks I would suggest that it's actually impossible.

So when DCI AR said what he said, he was being "economical with the truth".

What that means is this - not only does DCI AR know that it's impossible for him to have met Tannerman/CrecheDad, but he knows the McCanns know it's impossible for him to have met Tannerman/CrecheDad.

And not only that, he knows the McCanns know he knows that. Effectively he was saying "We're onto you".

2)The Smithman e-fits are so obviously GM and DCI AR knows that and he said on the programme "The e-fits are clear and I've asked the public to look very carefully at them. If they know who this person is, please come forward".

I don't know how he kept a straight face because I certainly couldn't.

All in all I think DCI AR sitting with the McCanns would have been akin to a fox perching alongside a couple of hens in the coop, or more precisely one hen and a cockerel.

Madeleine McCann detectives forced to delay interviews of new suspects

Nov 18, 2014 18:08 By Gerard Couzens

Scotland Yard cops have out their trip on hold after failing to reach an agreement on the interview status of 11 people they were due to quiz

Cops hoping for a breakthrough in the case of missing Madeleine McCann were dealt a blow after they were forced to postpone plans to quiz new suspects.

Detectives put their trip to Portugal on hold after they failed to reached an agreement over the interview status of 11 people they were due to question.

They had been given the go-ahead for the new round of interviews next week after a new criminal prosecutor in the case approved a fifth international letter of request.

A British man and a woman were understood to be among those facing a list of questions over the night Madeleine McCann disappeared from her Algarve holiday resort.

It is believed Operation Grange detectives cancelled their five-day trip to Faro over confusion about whether some of the people set to be interviewed would be questioned as arguidos - formal suspects in Portugal - or witnesses.

Prosecutor Ines Sequeira is off sick and was unable to clarify the situation, sparking the suspension of the trip by DCI Andy Redwood and his colleagues.

A new date for the interviews has not been set - and they are now unlikely to happen this year.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We have never officially confirmed when we are going out and we're not going to give a running commentary on this case."

For some reason we said "First is that we find really strange the lack of hurry in hearing these 11 people. On 04NOV2104, we know questioning was authorised, so why wait until the 24th to start hearing them? No urgency? Have these people such a full agenda that their next opening is only then?"

I'm not clear when the Jornal de Notícias reports that Robert Murat "..ended up being cleared of all suspicions" is this the same cleared that the british press report when the said the Mcs were cleared of all suspicions or was he cleared.

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This blog believes that concerning the MADDIE McCANN case the following happened:

- Maddie McCanndied in the early evening of May 3rd, 2007, in the Apartment 5A. We believe the death to have been accidental.

- At the time of Maddie's death the Praia da Luz's Ocean Club was hosting a large swinging holiday (which we believe took place in various locations in and around Praia da Luz - from Lagos to Sagres) in which the McCanns and friends were part of among many others.

- After Maddie's death a cover-up of unseen proportions and scope took place not to hide Maddie's death but with the main purpose of hiding the presence of swinging. To achieve that, Maddie's death had to be hidden.

- We don't believe there was any sort of negligence involved in the Maddie affair. We don't believe that T9 dined at Tapas Bar from Sunday to Wednesday. We think that on those nights they left their children with professional nannies - as did other guests - to go dine downtown PdL. On Thursday night they did use Tapas but that was simply part of what was to be "negligence"that was required to allow Maddie to be "abducted."

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Luz - THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED

PdL - What a place. Why does anyone holiday there?It's populated by black heroin addicts, people who rob apartments, gypsies who steal scrap and wood, scruffy moustachioed lurers of children, bogus charity collectors, suspicious street musicians, men lurking near phone booths, glasses man lurking in stairwells, blond men suspiciously lurking outside apartments, soothing couples entering apartments without permission, mysterious gangs of cleaners, men taking photographs of children on beaches... And to top it all, you have to queue for a table booking.Anonymous 11Nov 2013 12:22:00

Maybe because you can always enjoy an ice-cream in the rain?And a dip in an icy pool on arrival always attracts a crowd.Textusa 11Nov 2013 12:28:00

I like the Tapas fragile chairs and tables. They wobble nicely when cutting thick grilled steaks spilling the drinks all about! It's fun for the whole family!Anonymous 11Nov 2013 13:08:00

And how about the number of men seen carrying little blond girls in the street in the middle of the night?Anonymous 11Nov 2013 14:04:00

PdL - where families take it in turn to vomit each night, dog packs pursue and bite joggers, guests fall off catamarans, damage tendons playing tennis, have shaving accidents and stagger around apartments bleeding, domestic appliances need repair, shutters jam, baby monitors won't function at restaurants, travel cots can't be assembled.. sounds like THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.Anonymous 12 Nov 2013 12:37:00

Child Catcher

Algarve - THE REGION OF THE DAMNED

“Algarve – Where Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s Child Catcher found it ideal to roam the streets with his GYPSY-wagon:“There are children here somewhere. I can smell them. Come along, kiddie-winkies!”Algarve, the REGION OF THE DAMNED.”

Please Reconstruct I:

PJ's Declaration for Reopening Process:

"Madeleine McCann

As is the case with any situation in which a child goes missing, notwithstanding formal dismissal of the inquiry into her disappearance, and just as has always been publicly stated, the Polícia Judiciária never stopped paying close attention to any and all information that might possibly shed light on the whereabouts of the minor Madeleine McCann, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and the identity of the perpetrator(s).

It was with this goal in mind that in March 2011 the National Director of the Polícia Judiciária entrusted a team of investigators from the North Directorate with the mission of reassessing, as a whole, the vast amount of information gathered during the inquiry, aimed at identifying data for which a more in-depth investigation might be useful and possible.

The reassessment which took place over the last two years and a half suggested new evidence to have surfaced, which, requiring the investigation to proceed, meets the requirements set out by section 279(1) of the Portuguese Code of Criminal Procedure for reopening of the inquiry.

Accordingly, a request for reopening was made to the Public Prosecutor for the jurisdiction of Portimao, and approval granted by the latter. "

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"For the righteous, a revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth but for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses." Quote from the TV Series "Revenge" (T2 - Ep9)

Truth

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.Winston Churchill

The Revolution

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.George Orwell

The Revolution Goes Viral

"Once information networks become social, the implications are massive: truth can now travel faster than lies, and all propaganda becomes instantly flammable. Sure, you can try to insert spin, but the instantly networked consciousness of millions of people will set it right: they act like white blood cells against infection so that ultimately the truth, or something close to it, persists much longer than disinformation"The Guardian (04Jan12)

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“One coincidence, two coincidences – maybe they’re still coincidences. Any more than that and it stops being coincidence.”

Kate McCann

(in MADELEINE, by Kate McCann, published in 2011 by Bantam Press, pg. 328)

Imagine...

"This says it all, Ms Loach hit the nail on the head!

"Ms Loach replied: “Imagine the public believing that you covered up your child’s death and then sought to make money out of it. They feel shame, humiliation and anguish."

Yes, that's exactly what we, the public, believe, because that's exactly what they did! And, their "shame, humiliation and anguish" are because they know we know!"

Comment posted by Anonymous to Textusa at Sep 16, 2013, 8:36:00 AM on "McCann vs Amaral Libel Trial" post referring to Mockumentary maker Emma Loach's testimony on the 1st day of said trial as one of McCann's defense witness.

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Hey textusa How are you? well I hope,just thought I would tell you that there are videos about you on youtube, claiming you are an internet predator who stole her daughters identity and prowls the forums for young boys, they say you are welsh!! I think its a case of mistaken identity because are you not portuguese and male? Anyway great blog. keep it up.(Anon., Nov 13th, 05:43)

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sabot:

“Wot Round Table?”

bonnybraes1:

“He/she/it invented a barking mad 'theory' about no-one actually having eaten in the Tapas, because he/she/it couldn't grasp the table arrangements.”

So, because textusa doesn't understand stuff like that, all the Tapas group, the staff, everyone, were lying.

OMG - you don't suppose textusa is actually Gonc, do you?”

sansouci:“Could be Bonny.

The 'theories' about the table and the watersports are really so far beyond bizarre, that I get the feeling that 'textusa' could actually be 'pisstaka'.”

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“Because no-one is more vicious in their search for payback that those who realise they have allowed themselves to be taken for a fool” (A "boomerang" comment left by an Anonymous (Insane?) at Sep 22, 2012 2:06:00 PM)

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“…How would any of you idiots like it if your name came into the public domain because you were witness to a crime, and some mad bitch set up a site in which she called you a liar, and claimed you were actually involved in the crime you witnessed? Just ponder on that for a moment”

Aug 28, 2011 9:27:00 AM

“…Where is your sense of shame or decency in accusing innocent witnesses of being involved in covering up the death of a child?

I see no shame or decency on here - just an utter indifference to the rights or feelings of others.

I notice no-one had the balls to answer my question about how you would feel if this was done to you - if you were a witness to a crime and some deranged cow on the internet accused you of being involved. You are all a complete disgrace.”

Aug 28, 2011 1:09:00 PM

FOOT IN THE MOUTH DISEASE

Insane (Nov 14, 2012 11:37:00 PM):

Oh look here - amazing what one can find out by means of a couple of emails to Mark Warner.

You are toast, lady. Finished.

I am going to enjoy this more than is actually decent.

Textusa (Nov 15, 2012 8:50:00 AM):

Well it seems that you're quite privy with the Ocean Club aren't you?

Them giving YOU the information about their own mails?

And you threatening us based on information that YOU apparently got from the Ocean Club.

That's really interesting, isn't it?

Insane (Nov 15, 2012 10:47:00 PM):

One thing I really like about Mark Warner is how helpful their staff are. Really go the extra mile for someone needing information. IYKWIM

:)

Textusa (Nov 16, 2012 11:17:00 AM):

Thank you for confirming that Mark Warner Staff are supplying YOU with information pertaining the Maddie Affair.

Insane's Moment of Rare Beauty

“It would be more suspicious if every account tallied. Police expect to find contradictions, don't tell me you did not know this?” (Nov 22, 2012 3:38:00 PM), when providing an opinion on contradictions from various statements in the PJ Files.

“I don't give a rat's arse about the statements which tally too closely - of course some of them tally too closely, there is an in depth analysis of them on my blog, the one you are not invited to.” (Nov 22, 2012 4:08:00 PM), when, exactly 30 minutes later, provides an opposite opinion, in this case about the fact that some of Tapas' Staff's statements tally too closely.

Insane the Entrepeneur?

"I'd love to stay, but I have a report to write, and it won't do itself, will it?" (Nov 29, 2012 8:14:00 PM)Insane the Disruptor, a new profession shown inNew Career Opportunities

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''This blog expresses exclusively the exchange of ideas and opinions between people who have sniffed WAY too many solvents, and the imaginary people who live at the bottom of their garden, and so is not responsible for the enormous fines, possible imprisonment, or lifelong incarceration in a mental hospital which may result from it's content, as although it is on the interclickyweb, it is of a private nature, accompanied only by the voices in their heads, very much like any other conversation which takes place in a psychiatric ward between people rocking backwards and forwards in their seat and eating the wallcoverings, where FREEDOM OF SPEECH is exercised in the half hour per day of free association which the inmates are allowed.''Comment NOT published but submitted on Aug 22, 2011 10:17:00 PM

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We waited so long for the link...

A possible explanation for the wait: "As I have made perfectly clear, you and your sort will never have access to my blog. We are particular about who we invite, and would not include screaming harpies and riff-faff like yourself."unpublished comment from Insane at Nov 23, 2012 10:55:00 AM

Then, a glimmer of hope?“Publishing elsewhere the posts Textusa refuses to publish is also appropriate - and also gives you fools a chance to read what she withholds from you, knowing that you would desert her if you were aware of how much trouble she leads you into.” (Nov 29, 2012 12:40:00 PM)

No, it wasn’t to be so… :“For the last time, you will never be provided with a link for my blog - you are not welcome there and will never be given access”(Nov 29, 2012 1:38:00 PM)